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i'm the only one - 1
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she was my sister and she was sleeping late. she's a lot older than me and at the time she was about to break into films, directing them, so everybody was 1(沉迷) her. she was the only girl, too. if something didn't work out in her life and she had to come home for a while, it was a big deal. it mattered more than if i fucked up in one way or another. when kelly was at home you had to creep around the house and keep your voice down even if it was in the middle of the afternoon. our mother's canadian - i don't know why i say that, except maybe it helps explain her opinion about kel: smarts needs special. it was this crappy little phrase that she had made up and it meant that clever people. people with special talents, need special treatment. like they have a disease. you have to meet the canadian side of our family to understand how cute she thinks that phrase is. i remember thinking that it was bullshit when i was fourteen and it still smells bad now. but to my mother, kelly was this 2(小行星) that had landed in our lives and no one knew how she got there or what size hole she was going to leave. i've never been very good at school, and pete, our older brother, is the same. then along comes kelly. so my mother has us all pussy-footing around like a family 3 4, waving our hands, taking our shoes off.

i'm thinking of a particular morning, i was creeping around trying to make a silent breakfast, opening cupboards quietly, 5 like i didn't exist. i'd been doing it for a couple of weeks since kelly got back. it felt like i'd been doing it my whole life. the situation came about because earlier in the year kelly had moved in with this guy called aidan. they bought furniture, the whole works. then she cheated on him and he left her. apart from kelly being back in our house, it was also a shame because aidan was the only man she ever went out with, before or since, whom i've had any time for 6(无论什么) . aidan was a top man, a good guy. the thing i like about him was that he was smart, but he didn't need much of this special treatment. he was irish, from dublin, and he could be funny, he could talk football and he liked to see other people's mouths open and close besides his own. it was good knowing someone like him. i needed it; what with dad not being around, pete married and gone; and me in a house full of women. that was the year i was praying for a few more inches on my height and shaving the bare space under my nose hoping that something might turn up. so it was good to know aidan, six foot three and hairy as a bear. he was hairy back and front and kelly would 7(取笑) him about it, and he would laugh her off or tell her she could do with losing a few pounds which, between you and me, was nothing but the truth. she was a fat little thing back then. and he went and told her, straight-up; didn't care that she was almost, sort of, famous. he told it how it was. that was the way he loved her. she never appreciated it, though, and then she had this 8 with some pretty boy in the film industry. but you could see she realised what she'd lost when he left her because she slunk back home and holed herself up in pete's old room that i'd been using for weights. she took it over and lay in there all day in the dark curled up in a 9 duvet watching old black-and-white films. i remember asking her, 'why can't you use your own bedroom?' she had a small bedroom upstairs that used to be covered wall to wall in her school friends' graffiti(涂鸦) until she went off to university and mum 10(掩饰) the whole thing. i asked her again, 'why can't you use your own bedroom, that's what it's there for.' she said, 'i can't sleep and work in the same room. i need a study.' she said it as if a study is one of those things you can't do without, like clean water. i said, 'but i need to exercise.' she said, 'you're fourteen. your body isn't even developed. the only thing you need to do is stop beating the 11 before you go blind.' this was classic kelly. she always knew how to make you feel four inches long in every direction.

so she came back, and i had to move out all my weights and spread them around the house wherever there was space. i put the bench press in my room along with the free weights. i put the abdominizer in the 12(休息室) . i stuck the chin-up bar at the top of the stairs which lead down to the front door. and even though i was pissed off with kelly for taking the spare room, having the weights all over the place did make it more like circuit training and doing circuits made me feel like i was rocky. it's what they do in the middle of rocky movies; a two-minute sequence to show that over a number of months he got fit and pumped up. you pray for that kind of speedy, magic-time when you're working out, the same way you wish your 13 would pass like it does in a tv 14: a school scene, a sex scene and graduation. it's slower and faster than that. and some events become still and solid, and turn into a thing in your life, an object like a lampshade or an ironing board. they hang around; you could reach out and touch them. this day i'm trying to tell you about is like that.



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1 5f3cc260b51b8d1ca707f249dc336f93     
放纵( indulge的现在分词 ); 容许; 使(自己)沉溺于; 参加
参考例句:
  • the speaker played to the gallery by indulging in vulgar jokes. 为了哗众取宠,那位演讲者大讲特讲粗俗的笑话。
  • he did not agree with indulging children. 他反对纵容娇惯孩子。
2 uo1yd     
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
参考例句:
  • astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • it's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
3 xdexd     
n.指手画脚,做手势,哑剧演员,哑剧;vi./vt.指手画脚的表演,用哑剧的形式表演
参考例句:
  • several french mime artists will give some lectures this afternoon.几位法国哑剧表演艺术家将在今天下午做几场讲座。
  • i couldn't speak chinese,but i showed in mime that i wanted a drink.我不会讲汉语,但我作摹拟动作表示要一杯饮料。
4 cmjwg     
n.剧团,戏班;杂技团;马戏团
参考例句:
  • the art troupe is always on the move in frontier guards.文工团常年在边防部队流动。
  • the troupe produced a new play last night.剧团昨晚上演了一部新剧。
5 czrzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • during the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
6 beqz8i     
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
参考例句:
  • there's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
7 2ihzi     
vt.戏弄,取笑,挑逗,撩拨;n.戏弄人者
参考例句:
  • the other boys tease him because he is fat.因为他很胖,所以其他男生都取笑他。
  • his friends used to tease him about his tatty clothes.他的朋友过去常常笑话他破旧的衣服。
8 xgoz0     
vt.用力扔,使投身;n.尽情欢乐的一阵
参考例句:
  • i really must fling out all these old newspapers.我真的该把这些旧报纸扔掉了。
  • it's good to fling off heavy clothing now that spring is here.春天到了,脱去笨重的冬装真让人高兴。
9 ce4f5ad2ff6d2f33a3bab4b80daa5baa     
adj.臭的,烂醉的,讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 );发臭味;名声臭;糟透
参考例句:
  • i was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。
  • those lousy, stinking ships. it was them that destroyed us. 是的!就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船!是它们毁了我们。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻
10 38aadbb2fa5df4fec513e682140bac04     
粉饰,美化,掩饰( whitewash的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • the wall had been whitewashed. 墙已粉过。
  • the towers are in the shape of bottle gourds and whitewashed. 塔呈圆形,状近葫芦,外敷白色。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
11 atnzd     
n.主教,(国际象棋)象
参考例句:
  • he was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
  • two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
12 d82zb     
n.休闲室,休息室,长沙发;v.闲荡,闲散地度过,混日子
参考例句:
  • we had coffee in the lounge.我们在客厅里喝咖啡。
  • don't lounge away your working hours.不要消磨工作时间。
13 cyxzy     
n.青春期,青少年
参考例句:
  • adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
  • the film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。
14 0zuw2     
n.连本影片,连本电视节目;adj.连续的
参考例句:
  • a new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
  • can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗?
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